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Friday, 19 February 2016

Ministry of Transport and Communications Submits 2015 Performance Report

Chaired by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan in the Government today discussed the report of the Ministry of Transport and Communication of the executed in 2015, major works, the implementation of the program of activities and priority tasks of the Government of the Republic of Armenia in 2015,

Minister Gagik Beglaryan informed that within the framework of road maintenance program interstate and republican significance of the work carried out by 5.9 billion drams, including 3464.5 km of winter and summer 2978.9 km of roads. The study of the technical condition of the coating of individual sections of roads of interstate and republican significance of length 1720 km, the road network was completed videozvukozapis common RA et al.

Gagik Beglaryan noted that the program overhaul of roads of national importance in the amount of about 3.2 billion drams performed works on capital repair of roads with total length of 43.09 km, including commissioned bypass Vazashen-Paravakar 3.2 km long. To carry out extensive repairs of the motorway Vardenis-Martakert All-Armenian Fund "Hayastan" granted 5.24 billion drams. The subprogram overhaul of transportation facilities in 2015 signed an agreement on major repairs of Dilijan tunnel total value of 1.0 billion drams: has already started to be implemented in 2016-2017.

According to the Minister, within the framework of the credit program of the World Bank "Improving the vital importance of the road network" planned to repair road sections of about 97 km long. Due to the savings in the implementation of the program funds will be further repaired road sections the length of 38 km. It was reported that during the reporting period by CJSC "South Caucasian Railway" in the accounting period actually realized investment costs of about 6.6 billion drams. In 2015, in comparison with the previous year, the volume of rail freight traffic declined by approximately 17.3% and amounted to 2528.0 thousand tons.

Minister of Transport and Communications said that the program implementation in the Republic of terrestrial digital TV broadcasting system is fully completed the planned work.

Currently digital broadcasts cover the whole territory of Armenia. The Ministry managed to resolve the issue of acquisition of digital TV receivers DVB-T2 standard and donations of socially vulnerable groups. In 2015, significantly increased the number of users (subscribers) of Internet for different technologies, which in 2013 was 45.35%, in 2014 - 50.03%, and according to preliminary data in 2015 - 55.29%.

Markedly increased bandwidth streams of international transit service ip: in 2013 it amounted to 75050 Mb / s, in 2014 - 87 897 Mbit / s, and according to preliminary data in 2015 - 170,000 Mbit / s, as well as reducing tariff international transit service ip ( 1 Mbit / s) has led to the availability of services, making 4500 AMD. As a result of activities in 2016 it is planned to increase the number of Internet users up to 60%.

The position of the RA in the present report, "Global Economic Forum-2015" in the global network availability compared to the year 2014, as of 2015 improved by 7 points, reaching 58th place. In the reporting year, the relevant orders of the Minister of Transport and Communication of Armenia put into circulation 27 postage stamps, art 6 blocks, 12 cards with 1 postage stamp.

Referring to the road corridor program "North-South", the Minister Beglaryan noted that the participation of the President of the Republic of Armenia December 29, 2015 opened two-way traffic on the stretches of road Yerevan-Artashat and Ashtarak-Yerevan length of about 31 km under the Tranche 1 of the program. As an organization that will carry out the technical control of road construction Landzhik-Gyumri length of 27.5 km under the Tranche 3, selected Italian consortium and the Chinese company "Sinohidro Corporation" will carry out construction works. It was declared an international tender for the construction works of the road section of Talin-Landzhik Tranche 3, the results are summarized, the contract is in the conclusion stage.

The Minister also informed that carried out at the expense of credit program exceeded: Tranche 1 of the program development of transport corridor "North-South", carried out with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank - 2 billion drams, according to the World Bank-assisted program to improve road life value network - 8 billion drams. In 2015, the state budget of Armenia made 944.8 million AMD taxes and non-tax revenues instead of the planned 712.6 million drams. It was noted that for the maintenance of 22 interstate routes announced a competition, 27 foreign carriers granted permission to 81 routes service.

Prime Minister Abrahamyan hailed the efforts of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, noting that quite a lot of work had been done in various fields, including the rehabilitation of national roads, roads of interstate and local significance, as well as the organization of transport communications in rural areas.

Attaching great importance to cooperation with Iran in the field of transport infrastructure, the Head of Government instructed to intensify the ongoing consultations in order to take them into the practical stage
 

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